Single-player games like Growing Up
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Growing Up, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Magical Princess
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growing Up.
Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!
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Volcano Princess
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
- 4
Whimel Academy
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!
- 5
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Growing Up.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
- 6
Emily is Away <3
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growing Up.
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
- 7
Princess Maker: Children of Revelation
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Growing Up.
Princess Maker: Children of Revelation is a raising simulation game that returns after nearly 18 years as part of the Princess Maker package series, where you raise a young girl into adulthood. Become a parent in the game and help fulfill your daughter's dreams!
- 8
Youtubers Life
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!
- 9
Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- 10
The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Growing Up.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
- 11
Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Growing Up.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
- 12
Class of '09
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
- 13
Chinese Parents
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?
- 14
Princess Maker 5
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Growing Up.
Discover magic in our world with Princess Maker 5! A lone princess needs your care in a realm where fantasy meets reality. Guide her growth and shape her destiny. Create unforgettable memories as you raise her.
- 15
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
- 16
Griftlands
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Growing Up.
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
- 17
Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
A Hilarious Insult-‘em up in which players must verbally take-out their friends and family in different game modes. Assemble witty insults using different word strings, and employ combos, criticals, continuations and more to battle your opponents both offline and online across multiple devices.
- 18
Weedcraft Inc
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.
- 19
Floodland
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Growing Up.
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
- 20
Crush Your Enemies
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.
- 21
Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growing Up.
The boys are back , and they look better than ever! Oh…Sir! The Hollywood roast is a brand new spinoff to the surprise indie hit 0f 2016, Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator. This time around we’re taking tinsel town down a few notches, whilst classing up the joint.
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The Last Alchemist
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Growing Up.
Master the wonders of alchemy! Solve alchemical puzzles by transforming and combining Essences. Craft items, tools and machines. Explore the enchanting world, gather peculiar resources, and befriend the Agari, adorable mushroom folk who will help you find the cure for your mysterious disease.